John Summerfied wrote: > William Hooper wrote: > >> Gerald wrote: >> >> >>> I have an environment with 40 servers. Whats the best way to roll out >>> O/S >>> and software upgrades with these requirements? >>> >>> 1. systems lack internet access. >>> 2. would prefer that generally all systems maintain the same O/S and >>> software levels. >> >> >> Both would be taken care of by using a local yum repo. >> > > My personal favourite (and this assumes that the box with Internet > access has good Internet access) is to configure an Apache virtual host, > maybe redhat.example.com, that proxies a convenient external mirror. But you have no way of controlling what updates are released, so it doesn't meet the third requirement. -- William Hooper